Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (Cine Fan)
Genre
SPECIAL PROGRAMME
Release Date
11 Feb 2023 (Sat)
Category
IIA (HK), ---(Macau)
Running Time
126 Minutes
Language
English / Chinese Subtitle
Director
Albert Lewin
Cast
James Mason, Ava Gardner, Nigel Patrick
Synopsis
Headlined by the star presence of Ava Gardner and James Mason, this pastiche of ancient folklore and coastal European idyll centres on American nightclub singer Pandora, who, like her namesake, is a troublemaker, enchanting a series of frustrated men who fail to win her favour. Her fated love is a Dutch gentleman whose moroseness hides a terrible secret: he is the fabled Flying Dutchman, a 16thcentury sailor cursed by God to forever roam the seas alone until he finds a woman willing to die for him. With surreal storytelling and mise-en-scène, Albert Lewin’s ambitious romance-fantasy-tragedy unfolds like a dream, at once unpredictable, elusive and intoxicating.
11/2 (Sat): Film talk with Lau Yam
11/2 (Sat): Film talk with Lau Yam
Headlined by the star presence of Ava Gardner and James Mason, this pastiche of ancient folklore and coastal European idyll centres on American nightclub singer Pandora, who, like her namesake, is a troublemaker, enchanting a series of frustrated men who fail to win her favour. Her fated love is a Dutch gentleman whose moroseness hides a terrible secret: he is the fabled Flying Dutchman, a 16thcentury sailor cursed by God to forever roam the seas alone until he finds a woman willing to die for him. With surreal storytelling and mise-en-scène, Albert Lewin’s ambitious romance-fantasy-tragedy unfolds like a dream, at once unpredictable, elusive and intoxicating.
11/2 (Sat): Film talk with Lau Yam
11/2 (Sat): Film talk with Lau Yam
